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The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest.  
For more information please visit 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DESGHS97

Going Global
Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy
edited by Padma Desai

The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned 
economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major 
concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book, experts 
from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this 
transition. The chapters, which cover fourteen countries of East and 
Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, are the result of a 
three-year research project. Although the contributors share a unity of 
design and analysis, each author focuses on the issues most relevant to the 
country or countries under discussion.

The countries discussed are the Czech Republic, Hungary, the German 
Democratic Republic (now eastern Germany), Poland, Estonia, Latvia, 
Lithuania, Finland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, and 
India.

Going Global  is a study of the World Institute for Development Economics 
Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki, 
Finland.

Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative 
Economic Systems at Columbia University and at its Harriman Institute. 
Her publications include *Marxism, Central Planning, and the Soviet 
Economy* (MIT Press, 1983); *The Soviet Economy: Problems and 
Prospects* (Basil Blackwell, 1987), a collection of her scholarly 
econometric analyses of the Soviet economy and its decline; and 
*Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform* 
(Princeton University Press, 1989). 

December 1997
507 pp. 
ISBN 0-262-04161-8 
MIT Press * 5 Cambridge Center * Cambridge, MA  02142 * (617) 
625-8569